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TUESDAY: FMC sponsoring Spring Tour of Homes (2:02 p.m.)
FMC Price Protection will be sponsoring the Spring 2008 Tour of Homes in Middleport from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday.
The progressive open house event will feature about 20 homes for sale. A map of the homes can be picked up at the FMC office, 15 Main St., or downloaded from the homepage of the Middleport Web site at www.middleport-ny.com. Realtors will be at each home to answer questions.
While visiting the homes, participants can enter to win one of three grand prizes. Among them are, $600 worth of new appliances, a flat panel television or a $250 gift certificate. The drawing will be held at the end of the event at 2:30 p.m. at the FMC office on Main Street. Entrants do not have to be present to win.
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LAY OFFS: Seneca Gaming Corp. to cut 210 jobs
The struggling economy has evidently caught up with the local gaming industry.
The Seneca Gaming Corp. announced on Tuesday plans to lay off a total of 210 of the 4,800 employees who work at its casino operations in Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Salamanca.
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MONDAY: Mets, Bisons set to announce affiliation deal
New York Mets executives are in Buffalo to announce that the Triple A Bisons will be the major-league team’s top farm club.
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FRIDAY: Police, fire departments offer disaster training courses (3:13 p.m.)
The Lockport police and fire departments are offering a free community emergency preparedness course.
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FRIDAY: Four school districts holding meetings (1:25 p.m.)
Four school districts in eastern Niagara County will be holding school board meetings next week.
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FRIDAY: Staffing agency opens payroll center in upstate NY (12:40 p.m.)
Adecco, the world’s biggest staffing agency, is opening a new payroll operations center in suburban Rochester that will create 200 new jobs by 2010.
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FRIDAY: Ex-manager accused of theft from NY bowling group (9:58 p.m.)
State police say a 54-year-old man stole as much as $200,000 from a state bowling association while serving as its manager.
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THURSDAY: AT&T expands 3G to NT (4:57 p.m.)
AT&T Inc. is expanding its third-generation, or 3G, high speed wireless network many areas of Niarage and Erie counties.
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THURSDAY: Schumer to offer banks a deal (2:43 p.m.)
Sen. Charles Schumer plans to offer a broad economic proposal for the government to offer a financial lifeline to those banks that are willing to renegotiate mortgages for those on the brink of losing their homes.
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THURSDAY: US woman killed in Yemen embassy attack (11:35 a.m.)
The State Department has confirmed that a young American woman and her Yemeni husband were killed in a terrorist attack at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen.
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THURSDAY: Vegas detective tells of encountering O.J. Simpson (11:24 p.m.)
When police detective Andy Caldwell heard that O.J. Simpson was a suspect in a robbery, he said he couldn’t believe it.
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